Perspectives on Politics

Date replication readme for:
 
Financial Solidarity: the Future of Unions in the post-Janus Era

Leslie K. Finger, Harvard University,lfinger@fas.harvard.edu 
Michael T. Hartney, Boston College, hartneym@bc.edu

In this readme document, we describe the various Stata 15.1 .do and .dta files that can be used to replicate our empirical analyses presented in the paper. Please contact us if you have any questions.

The .do file Finger_Hartney_ReplicationData_PoP.do and the accompanying two .dta files contain all commands and data to replicate all models that analyze financial solidarity in our manuscript. 

Use the data file Financial Solidarity Replication Data.dta to replicate the results in Tables 3 and 4. The variables in the data are:
statenum: unique state identifier
year: unique year
cbrestrictlag1: dummy variable indicating that in a given state-year a law curtailing bargaining was enacted (lagged 1 year)
banfeeslag1: dummy variable indicating that in a given state-year an agency fee ban was enacted (lagged 1 year)
rescheckofflag1: dummy variable indicating that in a given state-year a dues checkoff ban was enacted (lagged 1 year)
anyretrenchlag1: dummy variable indicating that in a given state year one of the above three were enacted (lagged 1 year)
ptransfer: a continuous measure for each state NEA affiliate in each year. Indicates the % of the affiliate�s total revenue that came from the national parent NEA union that year (as a transfer)
adjtransfer: a continuous measure for each state NEA affiliate in each year. Indicates the total dollars per affiliate member that the national parent NEA union transferred to that state affiliate
ballot_elecs: a dummy variable indicating whether the state had a ballot or referendum initiative that year
md: dummy variable indicating state is a mandatory collective bargaining law state

Use the data file Campaign Contributions Replication Data.dta to replicate the results in Figures 2 and 3:
neamoney: binary indicator (dependent variable) indicating whether the national NEA contributed to a political cause in a particular state/year
s: unique state identifier
year: unique year
anyretrenchlag1: dummy variable indicating that in a given state-year one of the three aforementioned labor retrenchment laws was enacted (lagged 1 year)
ballot_elecs: a dummy variable indicating whether the state had a ballot or referendum initiative that year
gub_elecs: a dummy variable indicating whether the state had a gubernatorial election that year
leg elections: a dummy variable indicating whether the state had state legislative elections that year
atleast2: an ordinal variable (0-2) measuring how many labor law retrenchments had accumulated in a given state-year
atleast2lag1: same as above, but lagged 1 year
repcont: dummy variable indicating Republican control of the state legislature in a state that year
md: dummy variable indicating state is a mandatory collective bargaining law state